From October 2015

Issue 213 – October, 29th 2015

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I'm sure you have heard of the promise of Drupal 8 interoperability with other PHP projects. The idea is that you can now write code in your module that could be used in other PHP project besides Drupal. In this post the Drupal Commerce folk describe how they are planning to do this as well as other plans for the Drupal 8 version of Commerce.

Drupal 8

A good list of advice. You might not think you can help with Drupal 8 but you are probably wrong about that. You can do many things that don't require deep knowledge of Drupal 8 that can be very helpful.

I had the pleasure of attending this Drupal 8 training led by Jesus Manuel Olivas. Jesus not only guided us through Drupal 8 but showed us how to use the Drupal Console project which I highly recommend.

News

With all the well deserved praise of Drupal 8 good ole Drupal 7 can be overshadowed. In this post David Rothstein tells us about some new features in this latest release of Drupal 7. Yes, this is not a typo. New features in Drupal 7.

Hat tip to the great folks over at Chapter Three. They have hired two more Drupal 8 core developers. But more than that Nica Lorber makes a very strong case for the benefits of hiring core developers. I hope we see more companies doing likewise.

Acquia is partnering with WPP. If you're like me you have no idea who WPP is. Essentially WPP is a collection of different marketing agencies and they will be working closely with Acquia. This is another example of the maturation of the market place for Drupal work. It is getting bigger and more competitive.

Issue 212 – October, 22nd 2015

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Issue 211 – October, 15th 2015

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"Now that Drupal 8 is in release candidate phase, the goal is to get out of release candidate phase and onto release as quickly as possible. That means we'll be locking down the patches committed to 8.0.x fairly significantly, so as not to potentially disrupt stability."

"Despite all the rejoicing on social media, this isn’t the final release for Drupal 8 – it’s only the first Release Candidate. This means that we have (officially!) 0 “critical” bugs left to fix in Drupal 8."

Joris Snoek continues the headless series covering an installation and intro to Express JS, routes and dynamic templates with EJS in Express JS. and connect the JSON data from the RESTful Drupal 8 web service.

As you might expect the Open Source Initiative (OSI) uses quite a few open source tools to support our work in promoting and protecting open source software, development, and communities—things like content management systems (Drupal), wikis (XWiki), issue tracking/bug reporting (Redmine), desktop sharing (BigBlueButton), membership management (CiviCRM), etc. Read more

The cloud is well on its way to becoming the standard model for IT, just sixteen years after it first formed. It couples flexibility, scale, and reliability to user-friendliness and ubiquity. It has created some of the world’s largest companies, as well as empowering some of the smallest. The cloud has changed the economics of providing and using services, bringing many new opportunities—and also a few teething problems, of course. Read more

DrupalCon

Mike Bell's (mikebell_) proposal about mental health in the open source world and David Rozas' (drozas) talk about the phenomenon of contributing to a community were promoted to keynotes and I've heard a lot of positive things about both talks.